Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, (1835). A later printing, likely from 1860. 24mo, original cloth spine, marbled boards, printed paper label, 107 pages. Frontis, illus. The sequel to The Refuge, a moderately dramatized story on the moral and religious underpinnings to a juvenile education (Biblical precepts, abstain from..... More
Northampton: A. R. Merrifield, 1842. A later edition of this evergreen chapbook and tract verses. Original printed pictorial yellow wrappers, 4.13 x 2.63, [8] pages (numbered [3]-10). Woodcut illustrations. "Once more I quit my wint'ry bower. . . ." An oft-republished set of verses on the piety of a simple..... More
Cooperstown: Stereotyped, Printed and Sold by H. & E. Phinney, 1824. First Phinney edition. Chapbook, self-wrappers, 31, [1] pages. Illus. “She went to the Alehouse / To get him some Beer; / And when she came back / The Dog sat on a Chair.” The Harris London edition appeared in..... More
New-York: Printed and Sold by Samuel Wood, 1814. Third Wood printing of this English work, preceded by his 1811 and 1812 editions. Original printed wrappers over stiff cardstock, 5.25 x 3.5 inches, 52 pages. Illus. “Although calculated for the latitude and meridian of Great Britain, yet on an examination of..... More
